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How do I return to the old Friends page?
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I have been gone a long time.
Shall I explain my absence? Back in March, I tripped while navigating from the bathroom to my bed. I barked my knee, and thought little of it, other than to put a Band-Aid on it. That was early in the morning on a Saturday. Two days later, however, the knee had swollen to double its normal size, a huge bruise had appeared on the knee, two large ( Read more... ) -
Why is Christmas December 25?
Well, it's a date that is exactly one week before New Year's Day. But it was set then for several reasons ( Read more... ) -
The Affordable Care Act
It strikes me that what the "Affordable Care Act" should have been was an extension of Medicare (which has been covering me since the year 2000 very nicely) to everyone ( Read more... ) -
Weird words
German is a language which is known for creating words by putting together other words, until the result can be quite long. English does something similar by using endings, prefixes, and suffixes. An example is antidisestablishmentarianism ( Read more... ) -
Actresses
Sometimes I see an actress whom I just think is truly a beautiful face.
A few years ago I was struck by Catherine Zeta Jones, for instance. I don't know why, I was just struck by her looks.
Then there's Penelope Cruz. Another truly beautiful face. Both of them were in the musical Chicago. My cup runneth over ( Read more... ) -
Journal
I have been sadly remiss in not keeping this journal up to date. That probably says more about me and my life than anything else; since Mary Page died, I'm just sliding along, getting more and more amazed at just how fast the weeks are sliding by. One day it's Sunday, the next thing I know it's Saturday, and it's time to fill up the pillbox for a ( Read more... ) -
Pronunciation
The letter C was created by the Romans to represent the sound of Greek gamma (and that's why it's the third letter in the alphabet) and also the sound of Greek kappa. Then, when they finally figured out that those sound weren't the same, they created letter G (which is a C with a line in it to make it different, after all). So the letter C was ( Read more... ) -
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Why won't Live Journal show me comments from one or more of my Friends?